Kenny Golladay 4 years @$18/year
Adoree Jackson 3 years @$13/year
Alternate options that would have helped this team (in my opinion):
Yannick Ngakoue 2 years @13/year
Matt Judon 4 years @$13.625/year
Carl Lawson 3 years @15/year (I get that he got hurt)
Even to a lesser extent, Charles Leno and Morgan Moses are both performing pretty well this year and got one year contracts for $4 and $3 million respectively.
This team has little to no pass rush and there were opportunities to improve, but they spent their capital elsewhere. So far, it looks like a gross miscalculation .
When we can throw money at positions that depend upon the line of scrimmage?
The OL and lack of any decent depth is killing the offense. The defense is just not playing well...and none of us really saw that coming.
It's way to early on Golladay. Seeing him as part of a productive fully healthy line-up would be nice before declaring him a bust. Plus he's made some key blocks this season.
Not excusing DG or Judge, but this league is so tight that moments can turn perspective on its head. Just like close wins and losses, if Jackson makes that INT in Atlanta he may be in a "bright spots" thread at this point. If Golladay doesn't tweak a muscle and has more time to prepare for the start of the year, we may be pining for his return from this latest injury as our #1 impact guy.
I'm all for jumping on Jackson and Golladay if they keep going down this path, but we're a quarter through the season. I know BBI doesn't want to hear that today, but it's the shitty reality we live in.
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Is we've seemed to have some of these every year since Gettleman came on. You'll never bat .1000 as a GM but you have to have way more hits than you do misses.
Gettleman is pretty close to batting .100
LOL, those pesky decimals.
The knock on him was his reliability, he missed 17 games in 4 years in Detroit. That said, once Robinson re-upped in Chicago, the pickings were pretty slim.
When we can throw money at positions that depend upon the line of scrimmage?
Stupid. The Giants have spent all kinds of resources on the line. Has it worked? No but to say they haven't "worked on the o-line" is childishly dumb....
Every Giants fan knew this off-season we need to improve the WR corps. I'm totally fine with the Golladay signing...
If you're willing to pay top of the market dollars for Soldier, Adoree, and KG because you're desperate, you're most likely doomed to fail when the ink on the contract dries.
Is that a sound logical step?
If so, the coaches and front office must be absolutely reeling from what’s happened.
The OL and lack of any decent depth is killing the offense. The defense is just not playing well...and none of us really saw that coming.
If Tomlinson was a big loss, you'd figure his impact wouldn't allow the Vikings run defense to be bottom of the league.
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When we can throw money at positions that depend upon the line of scrimmage?
Stupid. The Giants have spent all kinds of resources on the line. Has it worked? No but to say they haven't "worked on the o-line" is childishly dumb....
Yes, but when. In 2018/2019 combined they spent one draft choice and signed one FA. That’s it. Then, playing catch-up they drafted three in 2020 and then none again in 2021. The results are one good LT and….? Building an OL requires players and time. Basically ignoring the OL until 2020, playing catch-up and then ignoring it again is, as you put it, childishly dumb.
Contract-year-itis may have something to do with it, except that Tomlinson was playing well in 2019 also.
This just looks like a lose-lose-lose situation: every party in the Vikings signing has lost.
Nothing wrong with drafting KT and giving him the job when you move on from Shepard. Better a year early then scrambling to find a receiver you hope to be as good.
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You're paying Shepard 10mm per year and draft another slot KT in the first round. Where is KT supposed to play? Seems like a poor plan to draft another slot guy while paying another 10mm. It's a redundant wasteful allocation of resources.
Nothing wrong with drafting KT and giving him the job when you move on from Shepard. Better a year early then scrambling to find a receiver you hope to be as good.
I disagree. Big waste of resource$. Can't afford in this league to waste 10mm or redshirting a first-round receiver.